A HARROWING film which tells how teenager Kayleigh Haywood was groomed online before being raped and murdered has been released to the public.

The 15-year-old was killed by Stephen Beadman in November 2015 after being bombarded with messages online for around two weeks by Luke Harlow.

The evil pair plied her with booze before landscape gardener Beadman raped her and battered her to death with a rock in woodland near his home.

The 15 rated film - called Kayleigh's Love Story – details how the schoolgirl was groomed on Facebook and other social media sites by Harlow before he lured her to meet them at his home.

She began speaking to Harlow, a man she had never met, on 31 October 2015 and over the course of 13 days they exchanged 2643 messages.

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Witnesses had seen her fleeing into the night “half naked” before he dragged her to woodland near a railway track and battered her to death with a rock.

The five-minute short was made with the support of Kayleigh's parents and has already been screened at schools in Leicestershire and Rutland.

In the video an actress playing tragic Kayleigh can be seen receiving messages from a man she meets online.

She eventually agrees to meet with him before she is brutally attacked and killed.

The film ends with a shot of her devastated parents - again played by actors - identifying their young daughter's body.

Kayleigh, from Measham, Leics, was last seen after being dropped off outside Ibstock Community College.

She had told her mum she was going to stay with a friend for the weekend.

In fact, she had been groomed by the sick pair on Facebook and Whatsapp and convinced her to meet them.

She rang her parents the next day but later a text message was sent from her phone to a friend reading: "Help".

A day later he phone was turned off and her family reported her missing.

Chief Crown Prosecutor Janine Smith said: “The death of Kayleigh Haywood was devastating.

“She suffered a terrifying ordeal at the hands of Stephen Beadman.

“She was only in that position because she had been groomed by Luke Harlow before being kept against her will.

“Beadman callously raped and took the life of an innocent teenage girl.

“Harlow pursued a succession of under-age girls in a sinister manner, talking about ‘kidnapping’ them and making them ‘slaves’.”

Leicestershire's Deputy Chief Constable Roger Bannister said: "What happened to Kayleigh was horrific but we are pleased that some good is coming from the awful tragedy and that this film is raising far greater awareness of the dangers of online grooming and the signs that it may be happening."

Last July, Beadman, then 29, was sentenced to life imprisonment for the rape, false imprisonment and murder of the teenager, while Harlow was given a 12-year jail term for false imprisonment and grooming.

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